Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

11-18-2009

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2078. Two record books (together with loose items within) of Euclid Porter Dodd, a member of the Bowling Green Fire Department from 1900 to 1938 and a watchman for ten years thereafter. The books include notes on fire department equipment and personnel, weather and temperatures, sports scores, fires and other local events, including the "first aeroplane" to fly to Bowling Green in September 1918. Also included are lists of local deaths, clippings on fire department personnel and miscellaneous Dodd family information.

Disciplines

History | United States History

SC 2078 Dodd loose items.pdf (3129 kB)
Miscellaneous loose items

SC 2078 Dodd Record Book 1.pdf (28358 kB)
Record Book 1

SC 2078 Dodd Record Book 2.pdf (49002 kB)
Record Book 2

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